A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of The Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

2 vol. [3], iv-xvi, 1-502, [2]; [3], iv-xii, [3], 4-527, [3] pp. Full contemporary polished sheep with twin gold borders on each board, spines in six compartments with gold tooling and a red and a black sheep label lettered and ruled in gold on each spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. A brown silk ribbon bookmark bound in volume two. Evans 46-4655. Macminn, Hainds, and McCrimmon 56. Oxford DNB, Jose Harris, "Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)." A dense thesis divided into six books. Mill discusses various types of knowledge, propositions, fallacies, and writes on the use of logic for moral and social sciences. The Oxford DNB offers a comment on the history of the publication: "On its initial publication in 1843 A System of Logic attracted little public comment, a silence that betokened, according to one contemporary, R. H. Hutton, not lack of interest but sheer terror among the book-reviewing community at the thought of incurring the crossfire of Mill's dialectical powers. Within a very few years, however, it was to become one of the most influential and controversial works of the mid-nineteenth century." The joints and corners mildly rubbed, the preliminary leaves with some foxing.…